Sweet Success in Vermont

Efficiency Vermont not only focuses on building relationships with the state's households and businesses, but also with the tradespeople, professionals, and suppliers who provide the state with energy-efficient goods and services.

Builders and contractors committed to high-performance homes face a range of challenges,” says Patrick Haller, residential new construction manager for Efficiency Vermont. “I talk to skilled, effective people doing tremendous work outside Vermont who always want to achieve more. So when they hear what’s going on in Vermont, I get a lot of How do you do it?” What’s going on in Vermont is Efficiency Vermont, the nation’s first statewide energy efficiency utility. Look at some of their successes last year in bringing energy efficiency to new and existing homes: